Integrated Endocrinology and Reproductive Health

The year-two MD Program curriculum at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison includes a course called Integrated Endocrinology and Reproductive Health.

Overarching Course Goals for Integrated Endocrinology and Reproductive Health

• Recognize the clinical presentation of the various states of hormone excess and deficiency and relate the signs and symptoms to the mechanism of hormone action
  
  
• Understand the concept of feedback as a control mechanism for hormone secretion throughout the endocrine system
  
  
• Understand the need to interpret hormone levels in the context of the other values within their respective feedback loops
  
  
• Relate the diagnostic evaluation and therapy of hormone disorders to their pathogenesis
  
  
• Utilize knowledge of the normal function of the male and female reproductive system to understand disorders of this system
  
  
• Recognize that abnormalities of reproduction can occur at all levels of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis as well as of the other reproductive organs/structures
  
  
• Understand the mechanisms of problems that occur in early pregnancy
  
  
• Recognize normal patterns of childhood and adolescent growth and puberty and understand the causes of abnormalities of these processes